Language-to-Language Quotes

Clark   Friday, September 26, 2003, 18:47 GMT
Afrikaans is the English language with an standard orthography.
Clark   Friday, September 26, 2003, 18:50 GMT
Portuguese is essentially the Spanish language with French nasal sounds and a whole bunch of muSH.
Clark   Friday, September 26, 2003, 18:56 GMT
Afrikaans is Dutch as spoken by children.
Clark   Friday, September 26, 2003, 19:07 GMT
Danish is the Norwegian language...er...I mean...Norwegian is the Danish language as spoken by Swedes.
Clark   Friday, September 26, 2003, 19:08 GMT
If you take the Icelandic language, let it evolve for a millenia, and then add English to it, you get the Norwegian language.
Clark   Friday, September 26, 2003, 19:11 GMT
Spanish is just vulgar French.
Clark   Friday, September 26, 2003, 19:12 GMT
French is Spanish without being phonetic.
Tim   Friday, September 26, 2003, 19:45 GMT
I'm not sure that's Clark
Jay   Friday, September 26, 2003, 19:46 GMT
Spanish is the Italian language as spoken in Spain.
Clark   Friday, September 26, 2003, 19:49 GMT
Tim, yeah, it is me.

Jay, thanks for playing along. Can you think of any more?

Esperanto would have been a natural language if Europe would have unified a very long time ago.
Clark   Saturday, September 27, 2003, 01:55 GMT
Romanian is Latin as spoken by Slavs.
ThaiBoxer   Saturday, September 27, 2003, 03:29 GMT
Malay (Bahasa Melayu) is Bahasa Indonesia if the speaker remove the accent
ThaiBoxer   Saturday, September 27, 2003, 03:39 GMT
there's one more

Sundanese language is javanese language if they swap the whole vocabs (95+% of the grammar is similar)
wassabi   Saturday, September 27, 2003, 06:09 GMT
er.....american english is UK english spoken in NA(?)
wassabi   Saturday, September 27, 2003, 18:31 GMT
um...canadian french is france french if you change some of the vocab